Originally Posted By: Bernie P.Razor sharp/ready to use right out of the packaging!Many are advertized as such but they're not.
I haven't found any that were sharp enough for me. Shaving hair certainly means they are sharp, but I like to use the rubber band test. Back in the day when I got started Fred Bear hammered about using a file to sharpen broadheads. This was bad advice and even ol' Fred admitted it in his later years. I believe a lot of bowhunters don't assign the proper importance of having broadheads that will sever an artery. Arteries are like rubber bands and the only way I can get a broadhead sharp enough is by honing and stropping. I have been bowhunting for many years and the difference between following the blood trail of what looked like a good hit for many hours only to have it drop off to nothing or seeing the animal drop from your treestand is a sharp enough broadhead.
I haven't found any that were sharp enough for me. Shaving hair certainly means they are sharp, but I like to use the rubber band test. Back in the day when I got started Fred Bear hammered about using a file to sharpen broadheads. This was bad advice and even ol' Fred admitted it in his later years. I believe a lot of bowhunters don't assign the proper importance of having broadheads that will sever an artery. Arteries are like rubber bands and the only way I can get a broadhead sharp enough is by honing and stropping. I have been bowhunting for many years and the difference between following the blood trail of what looked like a good hit for many hours only to have it drop off to nothing or seeing the animal drop from your treestand is a sharp enough broadhead.